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• n  a river steamboat on which theatrical performances could be given (especially on the Mississippi River)

• Republicans razz him as a media-savvy showboat and, lately, for buying a $5.
• Of the progress of the showboat, Cotton Palace, down the river, Director Harry Pollard has made a picturesque, oldfashioned, tedious melodrama, full of conventional photography .
• A notorious showboat and media hound, Sattar waved away PTI's photographer at one point, saying he was too depressed to pose for pictures.

News & Articles

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• There’s no business like ‘showboat’
  Among the most popular movies in the early Fifties was “Showboat,” a stunning version of the Jerome Kern musical starring Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel and Ava Gardner.
  June 12, 2013 - Baytown Sun
• End of Villaraigosa worth a celebration but not a party: Letters to the Editor for Tuesday, June 11, 2013
  Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is such a showboat. The city gave him a block party. Taxpayers footed the bill for police and street services and other costs totaling $75,000. -- Marianne Castro Lawson, Granada Hills
  June 11, 2013 - Los Angeles Daily News